Display apparatus.



vJ. VORMBAUM.

DISPLAY APPARATUS.

PPLIGATION FILED Nov.12. 190s.

950,498, Patented Mar. 1, 1910.

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JOHANNES VORMBAUM, OF DUISBURG-MEIDERICH, GERMANY.

DISPLAY APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

,Patented Mar. 1, 1910.

Application filed November 12, 1908. Serial N o. 462,224.

To all whom it may concer/nf:

Be it known that I, JOHANNES Vominiiuar, a citizen o't' Germany,residing at Duisleurg-Bleitflerich, Germany, have invented new anduse'lul Improvements in l)isplay Apparatus, ot which the following is aspecification.

lliis invention relates to a display apparatus provided with remoif'ableadvertising tablets which are adapted to bc locked against withdra uilby the door oi vthe apparatus.

In the accompanying' drawing: Figure l is a. front View of a vending;machine embodying my invention, and Fig. a section through the 'lrontportion o1 said machine, on line 2--2, Fig. l.

The face plate l0 of a vending machine or similar' apparatus is providedwith a central opening 1l adapted to be closed by a door 12 carryinglock 13. This door is hinged at s, to brackets 14 extending forwardlyfrom the plate at one side of the opening, so that when the door isclosed, it lies in a vertical plane directly in front of plate 10, (Fig.2). To the right and left of door l2, there are secured to plate l0,U-shaped frames 15 which are closed on their outer sides and also on topand bottoni, but are open on their inner sides, viz1-the sides 'facingthe door. l'Vithin each frame is received a slidable tablet 1G bearingan advertisement or other matter to be displayed. Tablets 1G occupy avertical plane, coincident with that oecupied by theV door when thelatter is closed, so that the latter, when locked, will constitute auabutment l'or the inner edges oit' the tablets and thusl eonline themwithin their frames. W hen the door is opened the tablets inav bereadily withdrawn and changed.

i claim:

A display apparatus comprising a plate having an inner opening, a series0f U- shaped iframes carried by said plate on opposite sides oit' theopeningl and communieating with said opening, tablets within saidtrames, brackets projecting forwardly from the plate at one side of theopening', and a door hinged to said brackets and adapted to be projectedacross the inner edges et the plates.

JOHANNES VORMBAU M. lVitnesses LOUIS VANDORN, BESSIE F. DUNLAP.

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